Deuteronomy 13:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Because he hath spoken Taught, or persuaded you. To turn you away from the Lord To induce you to forsake God and his worship. This shows that the most certain character of a true prophet is to be taken from his doctrine, rather than from his miracles. To thrust thee out of the way This phrase denotes the great force and power of seducers to corrupt men's minds. So shalt thou put the evil away Thou shalt remove the guilt, by removing the guilty.

Deuteronomy 13:5

5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turna you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.